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		timseal on April 14, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Man accidentally 'deletes his entire company' with... In the manpage for rm, I see "--no-preserve-root do not treat ‘/’ specially (the default)". For real? The default is to do the worst thing?

cyphar on April 15, 2016 [–]

No, the default is to do nothing. The (default) refers to "treat root specially" not the flag.

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